Community

Your profile page displays the following personal information about you:

• Username
• Title
• Picture
• Biography
• Social media accounts
• Website
• The date that you joined QuantConnect

You can edit your profile image, username, title, biography, social media links, and email.

Profile Image

Follow these steps to update your profile image:

1. Log in to your account.
2. In the top navigation, click yourUsername > Change Profile Image.
3. Click Browse.
4. Select a file from your local machine and then click Open.

Your profile image must be in gif, jpg, or png format and less than 1MB in size.

5. Click Save.

"Profile image changed successfully" displays.

Username

Follow these steps to update your username:

1. Log in to your account.
2. In the top navigation, click yourUsername > My Profile.
3. On your profile page, hover over your username and then click the Edit box that appears.

4. Enter your new username and then click OK.

Your new username displays.

Title

Follow these steps to update your title:

1. Log in to your account.
2. In the top navigation, click yourUsername > My Profile.
3. On your profile page, hover over your title and then click the Edit box that appears.

4. Enter your new title and then click OK.

Your new title displays.

Biography

Follow these steps to update your biography:

1. Log in to your account.
2. In the top navigation, click yourUsername > My Profile.
3. On your profile page, hover over your biography and then click the Edit box that appears.

4. Enter your biography and then click OK.

Your new biography displays.

Social Media Links

Follow these steps to update your social media links:

1. Log in to your account.
2. In the top navigation, click yourUsername > My Profile.
3. On your profile page, hover over the social media icon that you want to update and then click the Edit box that appears.

4. Enter your social media link and then click OK.

Email

Email us to change the email associated with your QuantConnect account.

Your profile page displays all of the organizations of which you are a member and the date that you joined each organization.

Your profile page displays your last five forum posts and your community engagement statistics. The forum post display lets other members read your recent posts and lets you find the comments that you recently posted. The page displays your community engagement statistics like the number of experience points that you've earned, the number of comments that you've posted, the number of discussions that you've created, and the number of algorithms that you've shared in the forum. Your community engagement statistics are displayed so that other members can see how active you are in the forum.

In addition to your forum activity, your profile page also platform engagement statistics like the number of backtests that you've run and the proportion of the Bootcamp lessons that you've completed. Your platform engagement statistics are displayed so that other members can see how experienced you are with QuantConnect and Lean.

Badges are fun to collect and show your experience with QuantConnect. Your profile page displays the badges you've earned. The following table describes the badges you can earn:

Badge	Description
Algorithm Sharing	Share an algorithm with the community.
Chatter Box	Post 100+ comments in the forum.
Backtester	Run 100+ backtests.
Live Trading	Deploy a live trading algorithm.
Parallel Live Trading	Run multiple live trading algorithms simultaneously.
Connected With Discord	Connect your QuantConnect account with our Discord server.
C# Programming	Set C# as your preferred programming language.
Python Programming	Set Python as your preferred programming language.
Popular	Receive 10+ upvotes from different members.
Boot Camp Private	Finish the easy tutorial.
Boot Camp Corporal	Finish the intermediate tutorial.
Boot Camp Major	Finish the advanced tutorial.
Notebook Sharing	Attach a research notebook to a post in the community forum.
Broadcaster	Attach a live running algorithm to a forum discussion.
Cloner	Clone 100+ algorithms from the community forum.
Bug Hunter	Report 10+ bugs.
Open Source Contributor	Make a pull request to one of our GitHub repositories.
Alpha Streams Developer	Add 1 Alpha to the Alpha Streams Market.
Alpha Streams Artisan	Add 3 Alphas to the Alpha Streams Market.
Alpha Streams Master	Add 10 Alphas to the Alpha Streams Market.
Alpha Winner #1	Place first in the Alpha competition.
Alpha Winner #2	Place second in the Alpha competition.
Alpha Winner #3	Place third in the Alpha competition.
Community Editor	Provide great service to community members in the forum or the Discord server.
Outstanding Community Service	Provide excellent service to community members in the forum or the Discord server.

Follow these steps to log in to your account:

1. In the top navigation bar, click Sign In.

The Sign In to QuantConnect page displays.

2. If you signed up with your Google or Facebook account, click Sign In with Google or Sign In with Facebook and then follow the prompts.
3. If you signed up with your email address, enter your email address, enter your password, and then click Sign In.
4. If you have 2FA enabled on your account, in the Please Enter 2FA Code field, enter the authentication code from the Google Authenticator app on your mobile device and then click Sign In.

Follow these steps to activate or deactivate two-factor authentication (2FA):

1. Log in to your account.
2. In the top navigation bar, click yourUsername > My Account.
3. If you want to activate 2FA, follow these steps:
1. On your Account page, in the Security section, click Activate.
2. Enter your email address and then click Continue.
3. Follow the steps in the pop-up window and then click Activate Two Factor.

"Updated successfully" displays.

4. If you want to deactivate 2FA, follow these steps:
1. On your Account page, in the Security section, click Deactivate.
2. Enter your email address and then click Continue.

"Success" displays.

Follow these steps to request an API token:

1. Log in to your account.
2. In the top navigation bar, click yourUsername > My Account.
3. On your Account page, in the Security section, click Request Email With Token and Your User-Id for API Requests.
4. Click OK.

We email you your user Id and API token.

Follow these steps to reset your API token:

1. Log in to your account.
2. Stop all the backtests, optimization jobs, live algorithms, and notebooks you're running.
3. In the top navigation bar, click yourUsername > My Account.
4. On your Account page, in the Security section, click Reset My Token.
5. Click OK.
6. Check your email to get your new API token.

Follow these steps to close active sessions:

1. Log in to your account.
2. In the top navigation bar, click yourUsername > My Account.
3. On your Account page, in the Security section, click Sign Out next to the session that you want to close.

"Session terminated successfully" displays.

Follow these steps to manage your email subscriptions:

1. Log in to your account.
2. In the top navigation bar, click yourUsername > My Account.
3. On your Account page, in the Account Settings section, click Manage Email Subscriptions.
4. Select the subscriptions you want and deselect the subscriptions you don't want.

"Preferences updated successfully" displays.

Follow these steps to change your password:

1. Log in to your account.
2. In the top navigation bar, click yourUsername > Change Password.
3. Enter your current password.
4. Enter your new password.
5. Enter your new password again to confirm.
6. Press Reset Password.
7. Enter your email address and then click Continue.

In the top navigation bar, click yourUsername > Sign Out to sign out.

Follow these steps to deactivate your account:

1. Log in to your account.
2. In the top navigation bar, click yourUsername > My Account.
3. At the bottom of your Account page, click Deactivate Account.
4. Click Deactivate Account.
5. Enter your email address and then click Continue.

The QuantConnect homepage displays. Log in to reactivate your account.

Contact us to remove your QuantConnect account from our servers.